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Recovering a saved over document.
In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new
document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the original report that was saved over??? |
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In Word, if the "Always create backup copy" option is checked in Tools |
Options | Save, then the previous version of the document will be saved with a .wbk filename extension in the same folder as the current version of the document. If you don't have this option enabled, and if you don't have a recent backup, then you're probably out of luck. You might try one of the many available Windows file recovery utilities, although they seldom work for me. desperate in SLC wrote: In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the original report that was saved over??? |
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I've found several tmp files, some of which may belong to word, ie
~wrf2983.tmp, within a temp folder. Do these happen to be previous saves? When I try to open them, all I get is jumbled code. Is there a way to view the original text? Thanks "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, if the "Always create backup copy" option is checked in Tools | Options | Save, then the previous version of the document will be saved with a .wbk filename extension in the same folder as the current version of the document. If you don't have this option enabled, and if you don't have a recent backup, then you're probably out of luck. You might try one of the many available Windows file recovery utilities, although they seldom work for me. desperate in SLC wrote: In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the original report that was saved over??? |
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See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 "Description of how Word
creates temporary files". Word is supposed to automatically delete the ..tmp files associated with a document when you close that document, so the only .tmp files you usually find are related to documents that crashed or that otherwise were not closed normally. Russ wrote: I've found several tmp files, some of which may belong to word, ie ~wrf2983.tmp, within a temp folder. Do these happen to be previous saves? When I try to open them, all I get is jumbled code. Is there a way to view the original text? Thanks "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, if the "Always create backup copy" option is checked in Tools | Options | Save, then the previous version of the document will be saved with a .wbk filename extension in the same folder as the current version of the document. If you don't have this option enabled, and if you don't have a recent backup, then you're probably out of luck. You might try one of the many available Windows file recovery utilities, although they seldom work for me. desperate in SLC wrote: In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the original report that was saved over??? |
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And if the document is still open, you can Undo back to the beginning of
your changes, resave as the original document, then Redo all the changes and Save As. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... In Word, if the "Always create backup copy" option is checked in Tools | Options | Save, then the previous version of the document will be saved with a .wbk filename extension in the same folder as the current version of the document. If you don't have this option enabled, and if you don't have a recent backup, then you're probably out of luck. You might try one of the many available Windows file recovery utilities, although they seldom work for me. desperate in SLC wrote: In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the original report that was saved over??? |
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